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Improving Patient Outcomes

06/06/2018

About Our Medical Device Clients… Modern-day medical device design is a particularly complicated, highly regulated, and safety critical endeavor. The engineering effort involved and timelines required to bring even a relatively simple medical device from concept to market can be quite significant. In many cases, it’s important for our clients to stay laser-focused on designing…

Realizing Untapped Functionality With Bluetooth Low Energy

06/04/2018

BLE and 219 Design… Not long ago, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) aka Bluetooth Smart was an emerging wireless communication technology with major potential. Today, just about everyone owns a device with BLE capability. Seamless wireless data communication between devices is often critical to a product’s adoption, and BLE’s ability to communicate with any modern smartphone…

Rust on the STMicro Nucleo

04/18/2018

In the interest of full disclosure, I will tell you that (until recently) the entire extent of my embedded development experience was a single Linux kernel module for accessing GPIOs on a single-board computer about seven years ago. My main expertise is GUI/Application development. However, in an effort to expand my personal horizons, I’ve decided…

219’s CES 2018 Staff Favorites

01/25/2018

Every year, 219 gets the whole team together to review last year’s accomplishments and plan next years goals. This year, we decided to meet up at CES in Las Vegas so we could see the latest consumer technologies and innovations first hand, some of which were from our clients! It’s not often that you get…

On the Fence for IPC Certification?

09/10/2017

Do you design, build, or test electronics assemblies? Are you thinking about IPC certification? I’ll share my experience with this program so you can decide if it makes sense for you or your team to get certified. IPC, the Association Connecting Electronics Industries, is an ANSI organization that publishes popular standards for the electronics industry….